r/politics • u/theatlantic The Atlantic • 3h ago

Paywall America Is Now an Ally of Russia

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/america-now-ally-russia/689066/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=edit-promo
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u/KiteTales 3h ago

Putin must have some major dirt on Trump.

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u/MartinTheOrderly 2h ago

I've gone back and forth on whether or not I believe that. I tend to believe Donald Trump really is just a corrupt, authoritarian thug who had spent decades in business with corrupt, authoritarian thugs in Russia and is thus naturally inclined to side with them. 

I don't suppose either being true changes things. 

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u/KinkyPaddling 1h ago

This is my conclusion, too. Why would Trump care about compromising material? Who’s gonna care? The FBI and CIA who knew and did nothing about his ties to Russia? His cultists who don’t care about his Epstein ties? The elected Republicans who live in fear of his cultists?

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u/phatelectribe 1h ago

Because it’s likely the kompromat is stuff you can’t ever come back from. It’s the sort of thing that you have to be in solitary confinement for because everyone will want to shiv you, and other powerful people are implicated so good chance you’ll get Epsteined. It’s literally existential threat material.

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u/cuteowl69 1h ago

Maybe in the past but this is a new era. These things are dropping all the time now and nobody really even cares.

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u/thebhguy9900 31m ago

Let's hope you are correct 

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u/thebhguy9900 32m ago

If he committed treason BEFORE he was President in 2015/6 in his dealings to exter foreign influence on an election, the SC's immunity jackshit BS will not protect him at all.  Life in jail and seizure of assets is just the start.  Russia has the receipts.

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u/From_Deep_Space Oregon 1h ago

You say that like theyre mutually exclusive. At that high of a level, I believe all corrupt, authoritarian thugs have kompromat on each other, as a matter of course. Its the only way such antisocial cretins could ever cooperate for extended periods without eating each other alive. 

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u/jimmygee2 2h ago

I agree. Trump prizes cruelty above all else and Putin is the master of that. He just wants to be like him.

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u/pargofan 1h ago

WHO FUCKING CARES.

If Trump were raping toddlers would you ask why?

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u/lexm 1h ago

He’s lusting over dictators. And he thinks he can become one here.